Toshi Sushi — Restaurant in Vancouver

First off expect to wait at least 30 mins if your not there before 5.30. The food is amazing one of my favourite sushi restaurants. Personally its worth the wait. Im usually very basic and get gyoza and chicken teriyaki. But this place in toshi i try to order as much as possible. Everytime ive gone. The quality of the food is always good and always consistent. Ive eaten the assorted sashimi. Sockeye salmon(my absolute favourite.) I went outside my comfort zone and ordered the baked eggplant. That was also equally amazing. Occasionally they have real crab for the california rolls and that makes it the absolute best place to get california rolls. The gyoza isn't pork like other places. They only have seafood and veggie gyoza but i recommend you try both( there is an option to get half and half.) The restaurant in itself is small. But i definitely recommend it. The service is quick and the servers are friendly and can help you with any concerns or questions. (Nov.24/2020)Edit- I still hold by this review but currently we are suffering through a pandemic so Toshi is only doing take out service until further notice. What does this mean? Well for one there is no 30 min waiting in line. Its a good idea to call or Iook up a takeout menu online, I think they have a Facebook page with their takeout menu. I remember not seeing a chicken teriyaki on their menu but they do offer so dont be afraid to ask. ASK if you dont see something. However dont be disappointed if they dont have something. Also DO NOT call 30 mins before they close expecting to get everything on the menu especially anything that needs to be cooked by the kitchen. If I remember correctly they only have rolls (like California rolls or dynamite rolls) and very limited nigiri or sushi like salmon or tuna. Last thing if they say your order will take 30 mins or 45 or whatever time they say thats how long it will take you can be there 5 mins earlier and they may have it ready but thats it. They are excellent with there time thats one thing among many things that has kept me going there over the years I dont eat here constantly maybe a handful of times over a year mainly because I live in surrey but also because it is expensive but Toshi is my all time favourite place to go for sushi and hands down worth every single penny without a doubt still I saw my original review has been years ago now but I still go there even in 2020 and I am telling anyone who sees this it IS worth checking out if you haven't gone in a while or have never been. What are you waiting for go! Eat! Enjoy! Stay...

I am not a paid Toshi spokesperson or a bot. With that,Toshi is the best sushi I've ever had in my life! No joke, my wife and I are foodies and on a recent visit to Vancouver, we went to Toshi thanks to its' many positive reviews and inclusion in Lonely Planet's Vancouver guide. We were blown away by the:Quality of the food, the most expansive menu either of us had ever seen and the otherwordly customer service! I would take a train from the east coast to Vancouver to eat there.

I've been eating sushi for almost 30 years. I haven't been to Japan, but I've eaten it in California as well as across the east coast. A good friend lived in Japan and schooled me on what to get. Bottom line, the quality of the fish was litterally melt in your mouth. I had a Hokaido scallop. On the east coast, food from Hokaido is impossible to find. We also tried salmon cheeks a phenomenal seaweed roll I'd never heard of along with a fermented ginger appetizer that, yet again, I had never heard of. All of the maki was top notch, the rice and nori were perfect. The waitstaff magically appeared at every opportunity to help us select dishes and orchestrate the moving of multiple plates.Everyone was positive, professional and on point. Stop reading the review and...

I give it 2 stars because we enjoyed the Japanese-style welcome and kind service, but we were very disappointed otherwise. We got lucky and didn't have to wait to get a table. I've seen huge lines of people waiting here everytime I walked by, and that coupled with the amazing reviews had made me truly believe that it would be an amazing dinner. But everything tasted bland, the only ingredient that was actually tasty was the wasabi. I ordered the sushi box thinking it would be a roll (because it was listed under the roll category), but it was pressed sushis. And by pressed sushis they actually mean: 98% of rice, 2% of bland fish whose taste is hidden under a slice of lemon. We ordered a total of 7 items and none of them appealed to us. I had a daily special, a seared octopus - which was served cold and was the paramount of blandness (if that was a word). So maybe we didn't get lucky and it was a poor kitchen service that night? I don't know what happened and I don't feel curious enough to give them a second chance. My fiance got sick all night after that, but I was fine. We found the prices were all right, our disappointment was really about the quality...